Two people including a police official die of dengue fever in the capital.

After wreaking havoc across the capital, the dengue disease has spread to 60 other districts, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

After the dengue outbreak spread to almost every district in the country, health experts now fear the viral fever will spread further and faster during Eid vacation, when tens of thousands of people are expected to head home.

A lawyer sues four people, including the chairman of the Ibn Sina group, for allegedly providing wrong report on a blood test to determine platelet level for the diagnosis of dengue fever.

BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has said that the government has failed to tackle the flood situation and dengue outbreak in the country and is now “terming all disorders in the country as rumours” after failing to check these issues.

Expressing dissatisfaction over ineffectiveness of medicine for mosquito control amid the outbreak of dengue fever in Dhaka and across the country, the High Court has wanted to know when effective medicine for eliminating mosquitoes will arrive in the country.

Five people, who had been diagnosed with dengue fever, died in Dhaka and Barishal, hospital sources say.

Dengue has spread to 50 districts with a record 1,096 patients having been diagnosed with the viral disease yesterday alone.

The Directorate of National Consumer Right Protection (DNCRP) fines two diagnostic centres in Dhaka for charging extra fees for the medical tests to diagnose dengue, violating the rate fixed by the government.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the government will tackle the dengue situation through united efforts.

Two persons today reportedly died of dengue fever in Dhaka and Savar.

Showing symptoms of dengue, Kazi Jabunnahar, 29, went to a nearby private hospital from her Banasree house about two weeks ago.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon says that the ongoing situation of dengue outbreak in the capital is alarming, and stresses that the authorities are doing everything to bring the situation under control.

The authorities of Dhaka University launches a 'cell counter centre' at the university's medical centre to diagnose dengue and count blood platelets.

The government fixes the fees for the medical tests to diagnose dengue at all private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres across the country.

A platform of students of Dhaka University burns effigies of the health minister and mayors of Dhaka south and north city corporations demanding their resignation over “failure in controlling dengue outbreak” in the capital and across the country.

Directorate of Health Services (DGHS) has asked all the private and government hospitals across the country to launch one stop centre for dengue patients.

Last Sunday, when Shahjadi Akter’s five-year-old daughter began running a fever, she rushed the child to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from her Hosni Dalan house. Doctors there diagnosed her with dengue, but could not admit her due to a lack of beds.

Dengue takes a severe turn this year with a total of 10,528 people getting infected with the mosquito-borne disease so far.

Two university students reportedly die of dengue fever in Dhaka and Chattogram cities.